People who do not understand what science is, think that it behaves like everything else in the human world - that you can tell how "truthful" something is by the way that it makes you feel. That is - people who do not understand science, think that they can choose what they want to be true, based on how they want to feel.

So, it is unfortunate, but necessary - that the scientific community MUST communicate the dire circumstances of the environmental catastrophe that Climate Change is - by making the public afraid of the inevitable changes to come. That is the only way to convince the public that the situation is incredibly serious and important - we have to make them afraid of what will definitely happen if they don't decarbonise.

Only if they are motivated by fear, only if they are terrified, will they actually do anything to save themselves. We have to convince them that decarbonisation is imperative, by convincing them of the Truth of Climate Change - by manipulating their feelings - by making them afraid of what their inaction will most assuredly result in.

Lamentably, in Australia the scientifically untrained populous typically votes for the scientifically ignorant Parties - the ones who think that money is some kind of magical force that can always solve every problem.

And tragically, because those Parties believe that fairy-tale so blindly, they have allowed and supported the Media to become almost all-powerful in controlling what the people are told to believe is True.

They believe this delusion so completely, that - not only do they allow the privately-owned media free reign to manipulate people's feelings - and thus also what they believe - that they also pointedly and deliberately attack and tear down the one precious media organisation whose sole and only purpose was to the the ACTUAL truth. The publicly owned broadcasting news service wasn't actually doing anyone any harm - all they were ever allowed to do from day 1 forevermore - was report the facts. No manipulation of Truth allowed - ever.

But that was a threat to the Parties who want to decide what is True based on their ideological agenda. So they felt compelled to set fire to the ABC. An act that is - sociologically - pretty much the same as having book-burning bonfires in the town square.

In those situations, the scientists typically sit in their homes with their doors locked for fear that they, too, might become fuel for the fires.

But wait - there's more.
Those same Parties also decided that the CSIRO - a publicly funded research organisation - studying Climate Change - was also inconveniently not agreeing with their scientifically illiterate fairy-tale ideological agenda.
Unsurprisingly, all of those scientists were unceremoniously thrown onto a metaphorical pyre.

Please, don't vote for any Party or Independent that doesn't understand decarbonisation is our most desperate, urgent priority, as a country and as a species.